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Hart Plaza

The riverfront plaza with the Dodge Fountain, the Underground Railroad memorial and a view back to Windsor.

The ring-shaped Dodge Fountain in Hart Plaza with downtown towers behind
Photo: donzigw, CC BY 3.0

Movement, Detroit’s electronic music festival, fills the plaza every Memorial Day weekend. At the river’s edge, the Gateway to Freedom memorial looks across to its partner, the Tower of Freedom in Windsor: two monuments to the people who crossed this river to freedom.